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Jun 16, 2007 17:12

My mouth is stale. I was feigning sleep for probably 20 minutes so I wouldn't have to meet this guy and his wife. For some reason my mouth gets stale whenever I nap. It's probably because I consciously keep my mouth closed. I just realized that my mouth is open, so maybe my mouth is usually unconsciously open. Hmm the only time I'm conscious about my mouth is when I'm pretending to be unconscious. I wish that were ironic. Oh well. I'm listening to the Funeral March by Chopin. I had no idea he wrote that. They didn't play it at his funeral though. They played Mozart's Requiem. It was controversial because women had to sing it but weren't allowed to by the church. They did in the end though. That's music for you. Defies religion. Is a crucial part of religion. Franz Liszt, Chopin's rival and terrific performer, wrote a funeral piece titled the same month and year that Chopin died, Funérailles (October 1849). People thought that he had written the piece in honor of Chopin, but Liszt, either out of truth or pride answered that he wrote the piece for three Hungarians who died in the same month. Liszt was very proud of his Hungarian background, and although he deeply regretted never learning the language, he composed nineteen hungarian rhapsodies. I've heard the first nine and my favorite is the fourth. You can download the music at the site below, but you won't be able to play it, unless maybe you're Shishi. Apparently his second rhapsody is pretty famous for being in cartoons. What a brilliant idea, to use classical music for cartoons...

No royalties or copywrite, great stuff, keeps it alive, good idea. My mouth is still stale. I think I'll go take my cherry B12 supplement.
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